Combined closure cap and styptic holder



S. W. CAWS.

COMBINED CLOSURE CAP AND ST YPTIC HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED :un 24, (914.

1,144,892. Patented June 29, 1915.

A TTDR/VE rs THE NORRIS PETERS cu, PHOTO-LITHa, WASHINGTON, D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STANLEY WINTI-IER CAWS, OF LAC S'lE. ANNE, ALBERTA, CANADA.

COMBINED CLOSURE-GAP AND STYP'IIC-HO'LDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1915.

Application filed July 24, 1914. Serial No. 852,953.

Improvements in Combined Closure-Caps and Styptic-Holders, of which the follow ing is a specification.

My invention relates to combined closurecaps and styptic holders of a kind suitable:

for use in connection with shaving outfits and the like, my more particular purpose being to provide a cap, serving as a closure member for a soap box or analogous con, tamer, and arranged to serve as a holderv for a button or tabloid of styptic material.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, and in which like letters indicate like parts.

Figure view, showing the closure cap carrying a styptic button, and means for holding said button within said cap, the parts here being in'normal position. Fig. 2 isa view somewhat similar to Fig. 1, but showing the slide, formingpart ofthe holder, shifted into its abnormal position, to :faciltate removal of the styptic button; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the slide; Fig. 4c is a sec;

tion, on the line H of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 :IlS;a;.

section, on the line 55 of Fig. .2; and Fig. 6 is an elevation of the closure member without the slide.

A cap 7 serves as a closure member for a soap box, of the kind used for holding shaving soap. The cap has a general cup-l ke form, and is provided with an edge portion 8 for encircling the top edge of the soap box, which is shown at 8. While in this instance, the edge portion 8 is shown as plain, it should be understood that the cap may be used in connection with any type of soap box, and to this end may be so formed as to be secured in position by turning, or it may be hinged or secured by squeezing, or in any other appropriate manner. The cap 7 is further provided with a slot 9 having a general arcuate form and extending directly through the cylindrical wall of the cap. This slot is bounded on one side by a lip 10, also of arcuate form, this lip being merely an integral portion of the cap, bent obliquely inward as indicated more particularly in Figs. 4 and 5,.

1 is an inverted plan or bottom;

A slide is shown at 11 and has the proximate form of a sector, the point of which is bent upwardly at 12; The slide is provided with a rim 13 integral with it and of arcuate form. The slide 11 is made of sheet metal, preferably tin or brass plate, and may be bent downwardly by hand, as indicated by dotted lines at 14 in Fig. 4:.

A styptic button is shown at 15 and is.

adapted to be normally held within the cap 7 by pressure of the slide 11.

The operator by grasping the arcuaterim 13 and drawing the slide radially outward, can disengage the slide from the styptic button, and by turning the cap into the position indicated in Fig. 5, the button may be dropped out of the cap.

The operation of my device is as follows: i

The slide 11 being inserted through the slot 9 is disposed at the outer limit of its travel, as indicated in Fig. 5, and the styptic button 15 is next placed within the cap, after which the slide is pushed radially inward, as indicated in Fig. 1, and also as indicated by full lines in Fig. 4E. The lip 10, by bearing against the slide 11, causes.

this slide, and especially the inner or free end thereof, to press upon the styptic button l5, thus holding the latter firmly in position. The cap may now be used after the manner of any other cap, as a closure member for the soap box. It may be taken off and replaced as often as desired, the fact that it carries the styptic button being a matter causing no inconvenience. When it is desired to use the styptic button, the operator grasps the rim 13 and pulls the slide outwardly to the limit of its travel, so that the styptic button may be taken out, as indicated in Fig. 5. It is afterward replaced as above described. The pressure of the lip 10 normally causes the slide to exert sufficient tension against the styptic button to prevent the latter from working loose. If, however, the styptic button, because of its continued use, becomes worn off thin, the slide 11 may be bent as indicated by dotted lines at 14, and thus adapted to exert its pressure upon the styptic button notwithstanding the thinness thereof. In order to bend the slide, it is drawn outwardly for about half its length, and is then pressed or bent slightly upward, by hand. In this manner the slide is rendered adaptable for use with the styptic button, as the latter gradually grows thin from use.

Having thus described my invention, secure by what I claim as new and desire to Letters Patent is as follows:

1. A combined closure cap and styptic holder comprising a flanged cap having a slot in its flange, and a slide extending through the said slot into the cap and forming with the closed end of the said cap a compartment for holding a styptic button.

2. As an article of manufacture, a hollow cap provided with a slot and with a lip par tially bounding said liquely inward therefrom, and a slide extendin through said slot and en aging said lip, sai d tegral with it and of suitable form to fit against the adjacent peripheral surface of said cap.

8. A combined closure cap and stypt-ic holder comprising a hollow cap having a general cup-like form and provided with a slot and wlth a lip partially bounding said slot and extending obliquely inward from the wall of said cap, and a slide having sub stantially the form of a sector and extending radially into said slot, said slide being further provided with a rim disposed outside of said slot and adapted to be grasped by hand.

AKA device of the character described.

comprising a hollow cap having an edge portion to be fitted upon a container, said cap being further provided with a slot extending through the wall of said cap, and also provided with alip integral with said wall Copies of this paten't-may be obtained for five cents each-Joy addressing the Commissioner extending through said slot and extending obslide being provided wit a run in and partially bounding said slot, said lip extending obliquely inward from said wall and having a general arcuate form, and a slide slot and engaging said lip, said slide having the general form of a sector and made of bendable material in order to adapt it for exerting pressure upon a'styptic button-lodged within said cap, said slide being further provided with a rim located outside of said cap and having a general ..arcuate form 5. Adevice of the character described comprising a cap made ofsheet material andsaid caphaving a general cup-like form, being provided with an edg-e portion for fitting {upon a container, said ca p being further provided with a slot extending through said wall and with a lip integral with said cap and partially bounding'said slot, said lip being integral with said cap and extending inwardly fromsaid wall, and a slide gaged by the inner edge oi -said lip, said slide at its inner end beingprovided with a bent portion for engaging said lip when said slide is drawn downwardly to the liinit of its travel, said slide being also provided at its edge located outside of said cap with a portion to be grasped by hand in order to move said slide relatively to said cap.

' In testimony whereof I have name to this specification in'the two. subscribing witnesses.

" STANLEY WIN THER CAWS.

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Gno. S. MONTGOMERI, JOHN LETAW'SKY'.

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